Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 279. (Read 710164 times)

Hi,
Please send email to [email protected], our tech guy will guide you to find out the issue and arrange RMA ASAP.

Thank you!

I did. As I said, I'v had it running for a long time (like 4 hrs+) already with no hashing going on. I'll check the connectors as soon as I can get there physically




Just tried that, no luck im afraid. Gonna check physicall connections next.

Hi, how is this possible??:



Just 218.5 stock freq --> 440 GH/s

batch 4, and barely makes noise. So thats impossible.

Other S3 i have even with OC are 2900 / 3000 revs

Noooooo (re prerequisite), I say that it is more likely that you mess something up rather than help yourself (on average).
Buy paste (just in case if you have a real problem)-it's $7.8/4g (MX-4 at amazon), or GC-extreme-$10

Should we all change the thermal paste on our miners? Should I go buy some before my miners arrive?

maybe wait longer than 12s...sometimes it starts slow (but not THAT slow, though).
check if you pcie connectors are connected well (latched on), they are a little tight to get in properly in some cases.
maybe go to and reboot

Anyone got any ideas? - Just got two hooked up today, one works fine, this one wont start hashing..

A note. Due to lack of PCI-e plugs I have only connected them to two of 4 ports on each S3..

Also the time seems off. I'v had it sit for 2 hours and every time i check it max says its been running for a couple of mins..

^He was thinking he got scammed, but it looks legit. It's just going to take longer to process since he used USD bank transfer.

  I think fast way to get it to buy bitcoin then order it with bitcoin.

Hi reactor77, I sent an email and they confirmed they take USD bank wire. I can tell u from past it does take time with a bank wire to go through fully. I'm sure yours will get processed and miner will ship soon.

Such a thing doesn't exist. All these hashrates are estimates based on blocks found. BitcoinWisdom at least tells you how many blocks they average, I don't see CoinWarz disclosing that anywhere.

While I like and agree that  https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty has the likely info as it bases the information it shows on the actual hash rate over 504 blocks like the block chain does.

But

http://www.coinwarz.com/network-hashrate-charts/bitcoin-network-hashrate-chart at least shows you the actual current hash rate of the network.  Until we get farther along let us hope that whoever is "testing" hardware for shipment turns it off before we reach the last 504 blocks so it can drop the difficulty rates back to 4-6%.

But if that is the case then we need to realize that there is at least that much potential in the network to bring it up again. Also some of the older boxes out there are becoming not profitable as the diff increases so some of those boxes that are higher power consumers might be getting turned off.  But winter will be here soon enough in NA and those who use them as house heaters will likely leave them on.

Just my perspective.

If I was seeing the difficulty doing what it is today I don't think I would buy the 12 ants that I did and have hashing again.  ROI for me is gonna be tough as it is and I already have them hashing.  Nevermind ordering today and only getting them by the next difficulty level.  If the difficulty stays @ 12% I will break even with ants/PSU's/switches/cables.  I need to find some of that free power stuff that was mentioned above. 

Fahlcor

Its running on a corsair ax760 like all my other ones. This is the only one with any sort of problem.
What thermal paste should I be replacing?

I did exactly all you told!
Inspected everything and no problem found FYI the unit was mining for several days normally but start to act like that from last night.
I also changed the control unit with a new one but same thing happen.


Last thing that I did was removing one blade and now the unit is working half load with one blade.

So seems that one blade had problem.

Like i said a few posts before, if you choose EMS for EUrope(at least where i live), you dont pay taxes

if you:

 A) have a suitable psu
 B) have low cost power  11 cents or 12 cents
 C) have the internet hookup
 D) don't pay tax on it  EU  pays  USA does not


I believe you can make money.    

A breakdown on 2 at .66 or 1.32 btc with current usd price per coin of 582  and diff jumps of 15%

this shows a profit  I used 15% diff jumps I am predicting 10-12% .

 If you buy psu's buy cat 5 cables buy ethernet switches  profit is tough.

After extensive research and calculations in the last couple of days I'd say forget it unless you have free energy (which is stupid, as there is no free energy). The general consensus right now is to buy BTC directly and let them sit instead of thinking that such small scale mining results in anything or even ROI.

Is anyone really earning Bitcoin? How successful are you guys with these ant miners S3s? Are you getting $200 per mouth like the mining calculator states. I would like to invest in a ant miner S3. Do you guy recommend it? Any advice?

Just received 1 of my 2 S3, batch 4.

They were delivered on 31 July, i chose EMS.

I had to pay nothing for the 1st S3 that arrived, the other one still on customs since 8th August. 1 s3 was released, the other one not. Wth... xD

And im from spain, europe. I had to pay customs using UPS, but with EMS(like i told you), didnt have to pay for first one that arrived. lets see what happens with the other one..... i dont understand they release one S3 and the other one not

I don't know about the production, but you can bet the sales are slowing down. Counting current diff increase trend 0.66 BTC per miner may very likely never been mined out of them. Probably expect serious BTC miner price reduction for Batch #7.